Shorter full -time, the same performance. And will help companies balance a six -hour working day
Both international and native experience deny the fears of a decrease in financial results. In the largest British test of four -day week 92 percent companies remained with a shorter schedule, a Average revenues increased first by 1.4 percent. During the pilot, to be 35 percent a year later. higher than before implementation.
Long -term report of 4 Day Week Global, including the United States and Canada, shows 15 % sales increase, 32 % decrease in rotation and 69 percent less burnout one year after reducing the full -time job.
In Poland, a flagship example is Herbapol Poznań. President Tomasz Kaczmarek emphasizes that the company has implemented changes gradually from 2023, and 2024 closed the best financial result for several years, with a clear decrease in absence and rotation.
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From chat to agent. New productivity level
There are many indications that lost hours can be recovered faster than it seems. In Google AI Works, employees saved an average of 122 hours. Annually on administrative tasks after only a few hours of training in generative AI. An important stimulus turned out to be the psychological “permission to promise” – formal The employer's consent to use AI tools at all, ask them for support and delegate some of the tasks.
Microsoft's experiment with M365 Copilot, covering 6,000 employees in 56 companies, showed 30 minutes less to read emails a week and 12 percent. Faster documents creation.
It is worth adding that the autonomous robots of South Africa, for the automation of business processes, They can generate a surplus of time of up to 88,800 hours. quarterly – This is how much regained its own UIPATH automation center, which translates into over $ 53 million. avoided costs.
McKinsey calls the next stage of technological development “agent AI” and estimates that the economic potential of generative models reaches 4.4 trillion. annually. At the same time, only 1 percent global companies are considered mature in full integration of AI with processes – The barrier is not the employees themselves, but the pace of the management of the boardsin which older people often sit, not on a regular basis with the world of technology, and thus without understanding in the context of what he can and what the AI agent is at all.
Platforms such as Uipath Agentic Automation, Salesforce Agentforce or Polish spin-off based on make.com allow you to build bots that adopt an order in a natural language, plan steps and perform them in ERP, CRM or HR systems, leaving only a substantive control to man. Even better opportunities are provided by platforms such as replit.com or cursor.com, allowing you to create specific AI -based applications. For example, 5,000 regained Energie in Romande energy. 200 hours In nine months, thanks to AI agents to process documents, and in example from the e-commerce sector, the bots reduced the time of service of complaints by 60 percent.
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How to transform in Polish realities
The first step is a working time audit, including a thorough process analysis. Only on this basis You can decide which activities will be compressed and which automated. EY data from the end of 2024 show that already 41 percent Polish companies use AI in marketing and analytics, and 30 percent Production plants have the first full implementation behind him – the costs of the costs fell in this industry by 23 percentage points. year on year.
Regardless of the sector, two cultural elements are necessary: formal inclusion of AI in the work regulations (since the system shortens the day, the company must shorten the procedures) and mandatory Training in the design of prompts for each team, and then the order of work with AI agents. The latter element also has motivational significance – people see that the effectively used AI model does not receive work, but slows down the time for creativity and other tasks. Or simply makes them have more free time, and the company does not lose its productivity and As a result, he does not have to employ new employees, exposing himself to higher coststo keep the same results.
Shortening the full -time job does not release from the foundations of the so -called digital hygiene. Companies must regulate data protection issues in cloud tools, and when automating finances ensure the so -called Double confirmation to avoid automatic approval, e.g. incorrect transfers. EY points out that the Compliance department remains in Poland a “white spot” – only 5 percent. The organization was implemented there by AI. That is why in the passage plan for 30 hours. There should be not only operational training a week, but also A thorough analysis of legal and ethical issues.
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And can fill the missing time
The Polish experiment with a six -hour work day takes place when generative AI and agent automation enter the offices and production halls at the speed that the market has not seen since mass computerization. Evidence from British, American and even Polish companies show that Well -designed shorts not only increase morale, but also revenues.
A condition for the equation “less hours = the same (or higher) productivity” is to release people from routine. 122 hours Annually on Administration according to Google, another tens of thousands on the side of process automation with South Africa and AI agents – these activities and savings are most within the range of many organizations.
Companies that can combine the restructuring of working time with fast AI adoption will gain a competitive advantage Not because they work longer, but because they work smarter. It is worth dare to now.
Author: Grzegorz Kubera, Business Insider Polska journalist
